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Sam Adams (Oregon)
Sam Adams ran in a special election to the Multnomah County Board of County Commissioners to represent District 2 in Oregon. He lost in the special general election on November 5, 2024.
Adams completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Sam Adams was born in Butte, Montana. Adams earned a high school diploma from South Eugene High School and a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon in 2002. His career experience includes working as a political activist. He has been affiliated with the American Political Science Association, City Club of Portland, and Multnomah County Democratic Party.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in Multnomah County, Oregon (2024)
General election
Special general election for Multnomah County Commission District 2
Shannon Singleton defeated Sam Adams in the special general election for Multnomah County Commission District 2 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Shannon Singleton (Nonpartisan)  | 57.3 | 55,467 |
 | Sam Adams (Nonpartisan) | 42.1 | 40,802 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 542 | ||
| Total votes: 96,811 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for Multnomah County Commission District 2
Shannon Singleton and Sam Adams defeated Jessie Burke, Nicholas Hara, and Carlos Jermaine Richard in the special primary for Multnomah County Commission District 2 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Shannon Singleton (Nonpartisan) | 46.5 | 25,394 |
| ✔ | | Sam Adams (Nonpartisan) | 23.6 | 12,917 |
| Jessie Burke (Nonpartisan) | 22.2 | 12,132 | ||
 | Nicholas Hara (Nonpartisan) | 4.1 | 2,217 | |
| Carlos Jermaine Richard (Nonpartisan) | 3.3 | 1,808 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 196 | ||
| Total votes: 54,664 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Adams in this election.
2020
See also: City elections in Portland, Oregon (2020)
General election
General election for Portland City Commission Position 4
Mingus Mapps defeated incumbent Chloe Eudaly in the general election for Portland City Commission Position 4 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mingus Mapps (Nonpartisan) | 55.6 | 186,700 |
 | Chloe Eudaly (Nonpartisan) | 43.4 | 145,909 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.0 | 3,252 | ||
| Total votes: 335,861 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Portland City Commission Position 4
The following candidates ran in the primary for Portland City Commission Position 4 on May 19, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Chloe Eudaly (Nonpartisan) | 31.3 | 66,943 |
| ✔ | | Mingus Mapps (Nonpartisan) | 28.6 | 61,209 |
| Sam Adams (Nonpartisan) | 27.7 | 59,195 | |
 | Keith Wilson (Nonpartisan) | 5.2 | 11,190 | |
 | Seth Woolley (Nonpartisan) | 4.0 | 8,577 | |
| Kevin McKay (Nonpartisan) | 1.6 | 3,419 | ||
| Robert MacKay (Nonpartisan) | 0.7 | 1,549 | ||
| Aaron Fancher (Nonpartisan) | 0.5 | 1,101 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 544 | ||
| Total votes: 213,727 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Sam Adams completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Adams' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am proud of my progressive values—but I am even more proud of using them to deliver real change.
This means using new approaches to addressing the crime and homelessness in the neighborhoods and business districts of North and Northeast Portland.
We have no more time to waste.
It will take electing people who can not only describe the problems but also who would hit the ground running and do something about it.
I have a big agenda to help solve our big problems. Here are my priorities.
Faster, humane action on homelessness and addiction:
• Help build 20,000 new units of affordable rental housing in 10 years. Multnomah County receives $125 million more each year than expected from a Metro tax.
• Take a portion of these extra funds and help build low-cost rental housing. The County says “no.” I will say “yes.”
• Ban unsanctioned outdoor camping as new official shelters open that are currently under construction. The first one I helped open already stabilized 100 people who got into permanent housing in just 8 months.- Prioritize community safety. There is no quality of life if you don’t feel safe at home, in your neighborhood or at work:
• I will dig into the county budget for more jail beds, and to hire more DAs & public defenders to unclog our public safety system.
• Improve ambulance response times. When we need them, they need to be there! The County hasn’t fixed this. I will push to fix it fast.
• Replace the now four-year-delayed sobering center immediately. The County has the money. They are just afraid to use them. The sobering center previously served 3,000 local clients per year.
• Require a yearly independent public report card on use of $650 million budgeted for homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness, and housing. - Standing up for North and Northeast neighborhood issues: • Save our grocery stores in North and Northeast Portland. I will keep advocating to stop the merger between Fred Meyer and Safeway/Albertsons because similar mergers have resulted in food deserts because of grocery stores shutting down. • Stop the disastrous proposal to re-location of the Delta Park bottle drop in downtown St. John’s. • Require County special interest lobbyists to register and report, and require elected officials to post their schedules, so we can see who they are really working for.
- I will make sure the needs of North and Northeast are the priority. • Require County special interest lobbyists to register and report, and require elected officials to post their schedules, so we can see who they are really working for. • “An open-government rule, corrupted by county chairs, basically creates a county government with one person as the sole decision-maker, without meaningful oversight,” Adams said Friday. “If it’s not illegal, it should be. Chair Vega Pederson should repeal it today.” • Close the revolving door between lobbyists and elected officials and staff so that people working for the county can’t immediately take lucrative lobbying jobs to lobby their former colleagues.
That’s why I’m running. I would be deeply honored to have your vote in the May 21, 2024 mail in ballot election.
Please feel free to call or text me at 503-421-8925 on my mobile phone with any questions, comments, or ideas.
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2020
Sam Adams did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 8, 2024
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